Plan

*Click* *Clack*

*Click* *Clack*

*Click* *Clack*

The sound of footsteps was heard in the middle of the night on the streets. A young girl with pale skin, black eyes, and long silky dark brown-red hair is walking alone on the street. She is wearing black yukata with red and yellow flower dot patterns.

She is the same girl whose shoulder gets stabbed two days ago.

'This is already the fifth round and till now nothing happened '

'He said that he will be watching, but I cannot see him anywhere '

'He didn't abandon me, right!? '

*Clunk*

*Thud* *Thump*

The sound of heavy footsteps is heard, and she stopped walking and turned to see who is approaching.

*Thump* *Thud* *Thump*

Due to darkness, it is impossible to see from the distance, but when she can see the face, she quickly started running.

A man holding a giant axe is sprinting in her direction having the same expression as the man who attacked her a few days ago.

'I think this is the right direction '

*Click* *Clack*

*Thump* *Thump*

From the footsteps, she knows that he is getting closer.

*Huff* *huff*

After taking many turns, she reached a stable, and her face brightened.

'I found it '

She dashed towards the stable with all her might. After reaching the stable, she turned to face her assailant.

*Grr*

The man blocked the entrance and his face twisted with a malicious smile as he knew that his prey cannot escape now.

The man without wasting any time jumped towards her, upon seeing the axe getting closer, the girl closed her eyes.

"Good job"

A calm voice sounded behind the man.

*Thud*

When she opened her eyes, she can see a silver-haired boy standing before the unconscious body of her assailant and has a coffin tied to his back.

Jin turned towards her and started observing her for any visible wounds.

"Are you okay? "

"Yes, I think so. "

The girl replied while taking deep breaths. After a few moments, when her breath stabilizes, she looked toward Jin, who is also gazing at her.

"Do you remember what you have to do now?"

" Yes"

"Then start"

"... "

She started hesitating, her mouth opened and closed a few times but no sound came out.

"We don't have time, hurry up"

"Umm... I.. "

*Sigh*

With a heavy sigh, Jin unsheathe his sword and pointed toward the girl.

"If you can't do this, then you are useless to me, I have no choice but to get rid of you"

"No, you can't do this"

The girl takes a few steps back in horror.

"Yes, I can"

Jin steps forward and thrusts his sword toward her.

"Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. "

"Someone help..... help me... "

"Ahhh....No.....no please....."

Jin sheathed his sword and nodded.

"Now, for the end"

Jin grabbed her waist and pinched heavily.

" AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

Her voice reverberated in the whole surrounding.

"Good, very good"

Jin let her go and removed the coffin from his back and takes out a corpse of an orphan girl, who died today in the city's hospital due to some chronic disease.

He grabbed the man's axe and started to stab the corpse with it.

Meanwhile, the girl is rubbing her waist which is aching with teary eyes.

"You are so mean, you did this with me, even when I cooperated with you and even risked my life"

The glared at Jin with an aggrieved look on her face.

"What did you just say to me? "

Jin turned towards her with anger visible on his face.

"You have almost ruined my whole plan with your indecisiveness, do you even know how many lives going to be lost, if I failed to kill that demon"

"You are complaining about pinching your waist, you know our corps have kids much younger than you who have lost their limbs, eyes and even then they are fighting"

"They are fighting so that people like you can live a carefree life without the fear of demons"

"And, here you are hesitating in completing a task that even a four-year-old could have done easily"

" I... I... I'm sorry "

She bowed her head ashamedly, Jin snorted and continued his work.

After a few minutes, he stands up and put the body in front of the stable, and then he grabbed the unconscious man and place him on his shoulder.

"Follow me"

Jin exited the stable and started moving towards his Inn with the girl silently following behind him. He put down the man and tied him to a bench behind a lamppost.

When they reached the Inn, Jin takes out the key and handed it to the girl

"Take this and stay in the room for the next couple of days"

"Then, what about you?"

"I am going to patrol the city"

Jin replied briefly and disappeared into the dark streets.

-

Next day,

Early morning, the owner of the stable found the body of the girl at his front gate.

Other townspeople and local police decided to bury the body in the town's graveyard. The local police are already get notified that this case is not under their jurisdiction.

Jin is keeping an eye on the whole process from the distance. He waited and after sunset, someone sneakily entered the graveyard.

'A human? '

'And he doesn't seem to be under any type of control'

After making sure no one is watching, he started digging the girl's grave.

After an hour he takes out the corpse and wrapped it in a big piece of cloth and carried it on his shoulder. He started walking towards the forest and Jin silently followed from behind.

'I have searched this forest before but there is no trace of the demon'

He continues to follow, at some spot the man put down the corpse and entered the bush, then he return and picked up the corpse and again entered the bush.

This time he didn't come back, Jin approached the place and find a secret tunnel behind the bush.

'So this is where the demon is hiding the entire time '

He jumped into the tunnel and after falling for some time he swiftly landed in the basement.

'Total concentration'

'Wind breathing'

He vanished and started searching for the demon. He can hear some sound coming from a direction.

"Master, a demon slayer is assigned to this city, we cannot continue this any longer or we will get caught"

" I don't care, I can feel that I am near my next evolution"

In front of the man is a demon seven feet tall with grey skin and a very skinny build. He looks like a corpse, he is currently munching a half-eaten corpse and there are many skeletons dumped on the side.

"Bring me more corpses, and after finishing my evolution, I will kill that demon hunter"

" But master... "

"Do you want to become my next meal Kurai"

"I deeply apologize master"

Kurai knelt immediately. The demon takes out a pouch and throws it beside the demon.

"Take these pills and remember I want at least ten more corpses within a week"

Kurai raised his head and contemplated whether he should speak or not.

"Do you have anything to say? "

"Umm master, that demon hunter knocked out all the people whom I fed these pills"

"Oh! then feed it to those who have family, that demon hunter cannot knock people inside their homes, can he? "

The demon grinned, and the man started sweating looking at his demonic smile.

" Y... yes master"

Jin who is listening to the whole conversation frowned because the demon states that the pill is capable of turning a normal human into that kind of savage, doesn't it mean that if it is modified, then it can be possible to change humans into savage permanently?

'I have to extract information about this pill'

Jin takes a back stance.

'Flame breathing: Third form'

Jin sprinted towards the demon and then launched himself into the air and swung his blade.

'Blazing Universe'

A vertical arc of fire launched towards the demon, who tried to dodge but he is a bit too late. His entire right arm gets cut and instantly turned into ash.

"Ugh"

"The...the demon slayer"

Kurai started running towards the exit, Jin watched him in amusement.

'The moment he steps out, he is going to be greeted with two dozen guns aiming at him. '

He has already contacted the local police to be ready to arrest a person who is found working with demons. Jin ignored him and again focused on the demon who is glaring at him, while his arm is slowly regenerating.

"You have two options demon, either answer my questions politely or I will make you answer painfully"

"Kekeke.... big words for a puny human"

The demon takes out a pouch and stuffed all its content inside his mouth. After a few seconds, his height increased to ten meters and his skinny body becomes muscular and bulky.

"I will show you why demons are the most superior"

He dashed toward Jin with his bulky body. His speed is even slower than an average human, he appeared to be moving in slow motion in Jin's vision.

'First form'

'Unknowing Fire'

"Argh... "

He swiftly cuts the demon's hands.

'Seventh form'

'Avid flame'

The demon's legs along with half of his body are sliced. The demon lay there with a lifeless look on his face and now he understands, he has gone too far, even after his evolution, he didn't think he can win against this human.

'So this is the end for me '

'I should have stayed still for some time '

Jin approached the demon and pointed his sword toward its neck.

"Now tell me about those pills, where and how can you get them? "

The demon who is barely able to open his eyes opened his mouth and

"Go to hell... "

His body started inflating and bursting into many pieces and the majority of them fly toward Jin.

'Wind breathing: third form'

'Clean storm'

He rotated his blade and a small windstorm formed around him which repelled all the pieces.

After the dust settled, he can see that nothing remains of the demon.

'Shit '

'Now, what? '

'I have to interrogate that man named Kurai, but it is very unlikely that he can have any knowledge about the pill's origin. '

-

After finishing his mission, he left Toyonaka city and went towards Amagasaki city to

hand over the pills to the headquarters.

"Okay, you can come out now"

Some distance away from him a young girl comes out from behind the tree.

"Why are you stalking me? "

"I am not stalking you"

"I... I am only following you"

Jin deadpanned at her. He again started walking, the girl run after him in panic.

"Wait"

The girl ran in front of him and raised both of her hands to block his path.

"Please wait a minute"

"Hmm"

"I want to become a demon slayer"

"Good for you"

Jin tried to walk past her but she grabbed his hand.

"At least listen to me for a second"

"I want to learn from you, and become a strong demon slayer, you have said that the number of demon slayers is very few compared to demons, so why are you so reluctant in teaching me"

"Listen girl there are two things you must know"

"First, demon slayers are the special individuals who are born with the talent to wield these blades and use the special techniques, so if you don't have the talent, then it is useless for you to try '

" And second, let's assume that you have the talent, then you will train under an instructor, not by the lowest rank member like me"

The girl looked at him and then replied with a smile.

"You don't have to worry about the talent because I have plenty of it and I don't care about ranks, I want to learn under you, don't worry I will never make mistakes like last time"

The girl proudly stated and Jin narrowed his eyes.

"Is that so? "

His eyes started emitting white light.

"Wow, what's this? , your eyes are shining"

The girl enthusiastically observed his eyes while Jin dumbfoundedly looked at her aura.

'Her aura is very small which is understandable because she has never trained but the density is even greater than Makomo, which means her talent is greater '

'And this golden color, I don't think any breath users I know have golden aura'

'It means she has to create her own variation of breath '

"Hey Hey... Mr slayer come back to the world"

The girl is waving in front of his face. He quickly regains his composure and he turned back to normal.

"Yeah, sorry about that, I am just lost in thought"

"So, um about my request"

Jin turned and started walking, the girl's head dropped and she looks like she will cry anytime.

"If you can keep up with me, I will accept your request"

'I can't leave her here, after proper training, she can become one of the pillars '

The girl's face brightened and she started running with him.

"Where are we going Mr. Slayer?"

"Kawahire Jin"

"Huh!"

"My name"

"Ohh! I also haven't told you my name"

"My name is Shimizu Asumi"